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failproof

adj

Etymology

From fail + -proof.

  1. derived from *(s)gʷʰh₂el-✻ — “to stumble”
  2. derived from fallō — “to deceive, disappoint”
  3. derived from *fallire✻
  4. derived from falir
  5. inherited from failen
  6. suffixed as failproof — “fail + proof”

Definitions

  1. Resistant to failure

    Resistant to failure; that cannot go wrong.

    • Near-synonyms: foolproof, idiot-proof

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for failproof. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA